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re Totally off topic -- Famous Football Quotes
Nov 3rd, 2009, 8:14am
 
There are a lotta good ones in here....
 
 
#1.  'Football is only a game.  Spiritual things are eternal.  Nevertheless, Beat  Texas  ' - Seen on a church sign in  Arkansas  prior to the 1969 game.
 
 
   
#2.  'After you retire, there's only one big event left... and I ain't ready for that.' - Bobby Bowden /  Florida   State  
 
   
#3.  'The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.' - Lou Holtz /  Arkansas  
 
   
#4.  'When you win, nothing hurts.' - Joe Namath /  Alabama  
 
   
#5..  'Motivation is simple..  You eliminate those who are not motivated.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas  
 
   
#6.  'If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, 'Roll, tide, roll!' - Bear Bryant /  Alabama  
 
   
#7.  'A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame  
 
   
#8.  'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.' - Woody Hayes /  Ohio   State  
 
   
#9.. 'I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation.  I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.' - Bob Devaney /  Nebraska  
 
   
#10.  'In  Alabama  , an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.' - Wally Butts / Georgia  
 
   
#11.  'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.' - Paul Dietzel / LSU  
 
   
#12.  'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.' - Bear Bryant /  Alabama  
 
   
#13.  When asked if  Fayetteville  was the end of the world:  'No, but you can see it from here.' - Lou Holtz /  Arkansas  ...  
 
   
#14.  'I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.' - Bear Bryant /  Alabama  
 
   
#15.  'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line.' - Matty  Bell  / SMU  
 
   
#16.  'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame  
 
   
#17.  'I never graduated from  Iowa , but I was there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.' - Alex Karras /  Iowa  
 
   
#18.  'My advice to defensive players:  Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.' -Bowden Wyatt /  Tennessee  
 
   
#19.  'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan   State  
 
   
#20.  'Always remember.... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.' - Shug Jordan / Auburn  
 
   
#21.  'They cut us up like boarding house pie.  And that's real small pieces.' - Darrell Royal /  Texas  
 
   
#22.  'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame  
 
   
#23..  'They whipped us like a tied up goat.' - Spike Dykes /  Texas  Tech  
 
   
#24. 'I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the  Texas  Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said:  'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.' - Walt Garrison /  Oklahoma   State  
 
   
#25.  'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.' - Bobby Bowden /  Florida   State  
 
   
#26.  'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport.  Dancing is a contact sport.' - Duffy Daugherty /  Michigan   State  
 
   
#27.  After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team:  'All those who need showers, take them.' - John McKay / USC  
 
   
#28.  'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.' - Murray Warmath /  Minnesota  
 
   
#29.  'The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb.  To be a back, you only have to be dumb.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame  
 
   
#30.  'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.' - Spike Dykes /  Texas  Tech  
 
   
#31.  'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle.  You can hear it.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame  
 
   
#32.  'We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches...' - Darrell Royal /  Texas  
 
   
#33.  'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking..' - Wilson Matthews /  Little Rock   Central   High School  
 
   
#34.  'Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.' - Darrell Royal /  University  of  Texas  
 
   
#35.  'I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame  
 
   
#36.  'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' - John Heisman  
 
 
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